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A comparative study on changes in the use of heat-not-burn tobacco products based on whether apartment buildings have designated non-smoking areas

open access: yesTobacco Prevention and Cessation, 2021
Introduction Since 2016, multi-family housing developments in South Korea can designate public areas such as staircases, elevator, corridors, and underground parking lots as non-smoking areas if at least half of the households residing in the development
Jieun Hwang, Sung-il Cho
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A public health perspective to environmental barriers and accessibility problems for senior citizens living in ordinary housing

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2016
Background Housing environments that hinder performance of daily activities and impede participation in social life have negative health consequences particularly for the older segment of the population.
Marianne Granbom   +4 more
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Factors that influence success in housing management, maintenance and renewal [PDF]

open access: yesUrbani Izziv, 2007
The execution of housing renewal works is a prerequisite for guaranteeing an appropriate housing standard. Housing renewal also reflects on the external image of the residential environment. The efficiency of the conducting of these activities depends on
Richard Sendi, Maša Filipović
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Ranges & Areal Proportions of Basic Functional Activities in Residential Apartment of Multi story housing projects in the city of Erbil.

open access: yesSulaimani Journal for Engineering Sciences, 2017
House built area determination has formed one of the main economical design tools in housing policies programs around the world. To ensure the efficient performance of these designs, these programs standards has linked the dwelling space determination ...
Dr. Hasan Abdulrazzaq Al-Sanjary
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Reducing energy usage in multi-family housing

open access: yesIOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2019
The energy usage in residential sector have been around 22% of the total energy use in the world and increasing due to the population growth and higher living standards. The energy sources for this are made up primarily of non-renewable energy resources which generates a large amount of global greenhouse gases.
Ameen, Arman, Cehlin, Mathias
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Co-operative Housing in Lithuania as a Field of Architectural Experimentation (1960s–1980s)

open access: yesABE Journal, 2022
The paper is a study of house-building cooperatives in the Lithuanian SSR as a field of architectural experimentation in planning, design and construction of mass housing during the late Soviet period (1960s–1980s).
Marija Drėmaitė
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FUNCTIONAL AND AESTHETIC TRANSFORMATION OF INDUSTRIAL INTO HOUSING SPACES

open access: yesFacta Universitatis. Series: Architecture and Civil Engineering, 2019
Buildings preservation by the conversion of their function has become a domain of interest in the field of industrial heritage. Due to the need to expand existing housing capacities in urban areas, a large number of industrial buildings are nowadays ...
Ana Stanojević, Aleksandar Keković
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Renovation of a Multi-family-house with External Wall Heating System

open access: yesThe 13th International Conference on Solar Energy for Buildings and Industry (EuroSun 2022), 2022
A new and cost-effective heating concept integrated in a prefabricated façade for renovation of multi-familyhouses was investigated in the framework of the European project PLURAL with the help of dynamic building and system simulations. The concept consists of a prefabricated insulated timber-frame façade containing the heating pipes of a low ...
SPF Institute for Solar Technology / Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST)   +5 more
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The new organisation of the housing sector together with all the new problems and measures [PDF]

open access: yesUrbani Izziv, 1995
The accomplished privatization of the housing stock presents both positive and negative effects. Among the problems which have emerged are; improper housing tenure structure, “poor” owners, lack of investments, legal problems related to ownership issues ...
Barbara Starič-Strajnar
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Early Conclusions from The Mixed-Income Demonstration Program: Reaching Extremely Low-Income Families in Mixed-Income Settings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
This report contains the results of a special Congressionally-appropriated grant program to develop affordable multi-family housing that serves extremely low income households.
Charles S. Wilkins, Jr.
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